The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord,… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind.… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
